Yorkshire County Cricket Club Training Camp at Desert Springs

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Dateline:

30th March 2015

Source:

The Almanzora Group Ltd

Subject:

Cricket at Desert Springs

Title:

Yorkshire County Cricket Club completes a successful five days of warm weather pre-season cricket & fitness training at the Desert Springs Resort

Yorkshire County Cricket Club players are now back in England having completed a successful five (5) days of warm weather pre-season cricket and fitness training between Sunday 22nd & Friday 27th March at Desert Springs Resort, Europe’s only international award-winning luxury family resort and championship desert golf course with its very own dedicated Cricket Academy, in the Almanzora region of Almeria, Andalucía in south-east Spain.

Andy McGrath, Yorkshire CCC Bowling Coach and Sam Hinchcliffe accompanied six (6) players who completed bowling, batting and fielding practice as well as strength and conditioning training sessions as they stepped up their physical preparations for the upcoming 2015 season.

Andy McGrath, Yorkshire CCC Bowling Coach, commented:

“This was a fantastic week and a great start for the lads ahead of the season.

The cricket facilities & staff were first class and all of our needs were catered for and we would definitely recommend and use again in the future.”

The training camp worked on a specific and carefully planned programme covering technical skills, strength and conditioning and both individual and group activity.

Yorkshire CCC players said of their pre – season training experience at Desert Springs Resort:

“Superb facilities, excellent hospitality, great week!” Dan Hodgson

“Nice to use grass nets having been indoor in England all winter, great experience!”Jonathan Tattersall

“Very accommodating staff in a lovely part of the world. Excellent Pre-Season facilities and I would love to come back!”Elliot Callis

The players and coaches were accommodated in some of the privately owned Townhouses normally reserved for holidays and short breaks at Desert Springs and the resort’s executive chef was on hand to cater for the special dietary requirements of individual players dining in El Torrente Restaurant.

This winter at Desert Springs, ‘shouts of FORE! have been combined with shouts of FOUR!

Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) is now set to follow in the footsteps of Somerset CCC, Sussex CCC, Lancashire CCC, Middlesex CCC, The Tom Maynard Trust, and the MCC Women’s Young Cricketers as they embark on their warm weather pre - season bowling training camp at the Desert Springs Cricket Academy between Sunday 22nd - Friday 27th March 2015.

A squad of six players, Dan Dodgson, Joshua Shaw, Johnathan Tattersall, James Wainman, Ryan Gibson and Elliot Callis with two officials, Anthony McGrath and Sam Hinchcliffe from YCCC, will benefit from the facilities of the Cricket Academy established at Desert Springs Resort.

During a five-night stay at Desert Springs Resort the YCCC players and coaching staff will benefit from training and coaching on the grass cricket wickets, to hone in particular, their bowling skills in advance of the start of the new season.

Simon Coaker, sales and marketing manager at Desert Springs, commented that the positive feedback and reputation that the Cricket Academy has developed thus far from previous visits from numerous County Cricket Clubs, coupled with the wide range of facilities available in the resort influenced the decision by YCCC to select Desert Springs Resort for its training camp.

“Taken together with the golf and all the other many top quality relaxation and leisure opportunities at Desert Springs Resort for both Senior and Junior, Professional and Amateur teams, the resort has proven that it does amount to an outstanding venue,”said Simon.

Accommodation for the players and officials is in some of the privately owned townhouses normally reserved for holidays and short breaks at Desert Springs.

The resort’s executive chef will be on hand to cater for the special dietary requirements of individual players dining in the resort’s award-winning El Torrente Restaurant.